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Denis Mukwege

Denis Mukwege (born March 1, 1955, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo), aged 71, is a Congolese gynecologist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Mukwege's honours include honorary doctor of the University of Pau, honorary doctorate from University of Angers and honorary doctorate of the University of Montpellier.

Denis Mukwege’s zodiac sign is Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Denis Mukwege’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Healer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Denis in the U.S.?

#1712

US rank in 2025

~21,606

Americans share it since 1880

1952

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Denis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

6 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

East

Season

spring

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Botanical green

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What the chart says

Denis, according to the stars

Core essence

Denis feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Denis is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Denis processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Denis needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Denis wants to be loved

Denis wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Denis you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Denis creates

How Denis makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Denis creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Denis is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Denis is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Denis is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Denis's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Denis sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Denis

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Denis

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Denis

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Denis

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Denis

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Denis

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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Denis Mukwege in 15 seconds

Pisces Sun

Feels it all, owns none of it.

Denis Mukwege's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 1, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.

Wood Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Denis Mukwege was born on March 1, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.

Life Path 6

Everyone's person. Never off duty.

Denis Mukwege's birth date, March 1, 1955, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.

What stands out in Denis’s chart

Denis’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Denis Mukwege, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.9° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 1.5° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.9° orbVenus faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.8° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.7° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 4° orbSun in Pisces · 10°03′10°Moon in Gemini · 8°36′Mercury in Aquarius · 15°11′15°Venus in Capricorn · 26°03′26°Mars in Taurus · 2°05′Jupiter in Cancer · 20°16′ · retrograde20°Saturn in Scorpio · 21°11′ · retrograde21°Uranus in Cancer · 24°01′ · retrograde24°Neptune in Libra · 27°59′ · retrograde27°Pluto in Leo · 25°13′ · retrograde25°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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Trine 120°
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn0.9° orb

    Denis’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussquareNeptune1.3° to 2.5° orb

    Denis’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus1.5° to 2.6° orb

    Denis’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus2.8° to 2.9° orb

    Denis’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.8° orb

    Denis’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune3.7° to 4.5° orb

    Denis’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus3.7° to 3.8° orb

    Denis’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto4.0° to 4.1° orb

    Denis’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableUranussquareNeptune4.0° orb

    Denis’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter5.2° to 6.4° orb

    Denis’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn5.8° to 6.2° orb

    Denis’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • stableVenussquareMars5.8° to 6.3° orb

    Denis’s affections grind against their drive.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Denis’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

  • ChironAquarius 2°39′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Denis making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

  • CeresCapricorn 10°06′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Denis caring by building something that lasts for others.

  • ErosPisces 16°55′ (moves 0.65° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Denis is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • HygieaLibra 19°34′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Denis is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.

  • Black Moon LilithScorpio 28°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Denis is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Ceres sextile Sun 0.1°
  • Chiron square Mars 0.6°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.8°

Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).

Denis’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  1. 1. Neptune8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. Venus6 pts

    disposes Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. Saturn5 pts

    disposes Venus; 4 major aspects

A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Denis is read as tuned to what is not said.

How the score is built
  • Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
  • Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
  • Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
  • Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
  • Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.

Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.

Configurations in Denis’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Venus, Uranus, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Venus · Mars, Neptune, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • Venus quincunx Pluto 0.8°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.0°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Denis Mukwege, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Denis’s cards

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The Lovers

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The Gilded Healer

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Western zodiac

Pisces

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Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

yin Wood

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

yang Earth

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Metal

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Denis Mukwege, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

Denis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1187542, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Portrait by Foreign and Commonwealth Office, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Denis Mukwege at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Denis Mukwege.

Quick answers about Denis Mukwege’s chart

How old is Denis Mukwege?
Denis Mukwege is 71 years old, born March 1, 1955 in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
What zodiac sign is Denis Mukwege?
Denis Mukwege is a Pisces: born March 1, 1955, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat.
What is Denis Mukwege's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 1, 1955 birth.
What time was Denis Mukwege born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
What is Denis Mukwege's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the March 1, 1955 birth date.
What is Denis Mukwege's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 1, 1955 birth date.
Where is Denis Mukwege's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Denis Mukwege's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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